Cold case mysteries: B.C. RCMP release more details in skull reconstruction project
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 03:29:15 +0000
Police are hoping a sculpture workshop at the New York Academy of Art will help solve the mysteries of 14 unidentified remains found in British Columbia dating back decades.
Chilliwack RCMP released details of the first in a series of profiles designed to use the clay replicas to solve cold cases — this one dating back nearly half a century.
In September 1972, Mounties received a report of the body of a man on a sandbar in the Fraser River near McSween Road. Though there was no evidence of criminality, the identity of the remains has never been determined and the case went cold.
He is described as 18 to 35 years old, with brown hair and brown eyes, and with well looked after teeth.
Students at the New York Academy of Art reconstructed 15 faces of Canadian unidentified human remains, one from Nova Scotia (top left) that has since been identified and 14 from B.C.
“Chilliwack RCMP are reaching out to the public for assistance identifying the person depicted in the image,” said Upper Fraser Valley RCMP spokesman Cpl. Mike Rail.
“We are hoping to put a name to a face and provide an answer to a family after 47 years of missing a loved one.”
Students at the academy reconstructed 15 faces directly onto 3D printed replicas of the actual skulls as part of a forensic sculpture workshop.
The project has yielded one success in Nova Scotia. Police in Digby County said Monday that one of the men was identified through DNA analysis as a 43-year-old from Saint John, N.B.
Anyone who recognizes any of the faces from B.C. is asked to contact their local police agency or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
— With a file from The Canadian Press